Pupils who have special educational needs (SEN) support, including those children with Education, Heath and Care Plans (EHCP), have the highest exclusion rate in the UK. The Department for Education found that children with SEN are over 7 times...
Lee Scott was asked in March 2016 by the previous Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, to look into the special educational needs and disability (SEND) changes brought about by the Children and Families Act 2014. Mr Scott was the former Prime Minister’s...
Earlier this month Boyes Turner’s special educational needs (SEN) specialists were kindly invited to attend an event celebrating local charity Dingley’s Promise . Dingley’s Promise is a registered not for profit charity with a...
Boyes Turner SEN team hosted their annual conference on 20 October 2016. Laxmi Patel , Head of Education at Boyes Turner, gave us top tips and guidance on how to complete an Educational Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and provided real examples...
The Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) has brought in new changes to the tribunal appeals process. The changes were brought in from 1 August 2016 and have not been widely publicised. The tribunal’s website will be changed in...
Over the weekend, we received this flyer from a concerned parent via Facebook. The parent asked us whether what the local authority was proposing was lawful. The flyer “SEN Banding Information Sessions” poses the question;...
We are approaching the end of the academic year. This is normally a busy time for education lawyers, particularly those of us who specialise in special educational needs. This year, however, has been the most hectic I have experienced in nearly 10 years...
We’ve been asked to clarify how special educational needs funding (SEN funding) is handled in schools. We are told that some local authorities (LAs) are ‘deducting’ the first £10,000 and others are ‘deducting’ the...
The Department for Education (DfE) has issued its first set of special educational needs statistics following the changes brought about by the Children and Families Act 2014. The information published on 26 May 2016 is currently the only national source...
Our special educational needs team will be attending the Transition Event on Thursday 26th May 2016 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham. Support for young people with disabilities into adulthood Celebrating its 10 th anniversary, the...
